Cigar-lighter.



F. STOGKBBH CIGAR LIGHTER. APPLICATION IILED Nov. 26, 1909.

961 ,264. Patented June 14,1910.

WITNESS-ES: INVENTOR Jud 94M QBwLmR, BY

A'TTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED STOCKER, F SAGINAW, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'IO GUSTAVE M. MEYER, OF SAG-INAW, MICHIGAN.

CIGAR-LIGHTER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 14, 1910.

Application filed November 26, 1909. Serial No. 529,962.

Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar- Lighters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention is a cigar lighter of the type in which gas is employed to produce the flame, and my present improvements pertain more particularly to that type of gas flame cigar lighters that are usually suspended from a flexible gas tube and burn with a minimum flame until the lighter is used for lighting a cigar. The lighter 2o thereupon delivers an increased flame, the

maximum flame being fixed by adjustment of the lighter.

My invention consists in certain constructions and arrangements of the parts of such a cigar lighter as has just been described,

whereby I produce a lighter that is simple in construction, yet strong and durable, and one which embodies means whereby the maximum flame will be delivered by the 0 lighter when the handles are pressed together, regardless of the amount of extra pressure that may be exerted on the handles by the user.

My improved lighter also embodies means whereby the minimum flame of the lighter can be easily and quickly regulated, such regulating means being so constructed that undue strain or wear cannot be brought upon the regulating screw, thereby preserving the minimum flame adjustment without liability of derangement by hard usage.

\ A further object is to so arrange the minimum flame adjusting screw as to hold together the parts of the lighter, even though the screw cap at the end of the gas plug should become detached.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a part sectional side elevation of the lighter, Fig. 2 is a horizontal section ing a lighter cup 2 at one side and a handle 3 at the opposite side. Received in the shell is a tapered plug 4, the upper end of which is formed with an upwardly projecting hose nipple 5 and provided with a lateral extending handle 6. The nipple 5 and plug 4 arebored centrally as at 7, and a radial hole 8 connects the bore 7 with the exterior of the tapered plug 4. A similar hole 9 is provided in the shell 1 and adapted to register with the radial hole 8, the hole 8 extending the length of the cup stem 10 to conduct gas to the cup 2. The lower end of the plug 41 is threaded to receive a screw 11 and a washer 12, as is customary in the construction of plug cocks.

On the inside of each of the handles 3 and 6 is provided a projecting boss 3 6*, the inner ends of which abut when the two handles are forcibly squeezed together. To keep the handles normally apart, I mount on these two bosses a compression spring 13 and to limit the amount of opening of the handles, I provide on the shell 1 a threaded boss 1 in which is an adjusting screw 14. Against the end of this adjusting screw the handle 6 contacts, a stopor projection 15 being provided on the handle for that purpose. 1

When the two handles 3 and 6 are pressed together as closely as the bosses 3 and 6 permit, then the radial hole 8 in the tapered plug and the hole 9 in the shell are in register so that gas entering the nipple 5 will flow to the cup 2. The size of these holes and the size of the gas outlet in the cup 2 determines the maximum rate of flow and the size of the maximum flame when the lighter is used for lighting a cigar. The amount of separation of the handles 3 and 6 and the consequent angular displacement of the radial hole 8 in the plug 4 with relation to the hole 9 in the shell regulates the size of the flame when the lighter isnot being used, this regulation being efi'ected by the combined action of the outwardly pressing spring 13 and the adjustment of the screw 14. against which the stop 15 impinges.

It sometimes occurs in plug valves of this type that the plug screw 11 and washer 12 may become loosened, resulting in the shell dropping away from the tapered plug. To guard against such a contingency I so arrange the screw 14 that it will prevent the separation of the shell 1 and the tapered plug 4. The construction by which this is accomplished is shown in Fig. 3, in which 4 is a pocket formed in the side of plug 4, and the end of screw 14 is loosely received in this pocket in such a manner that it does not interfere with the movement of the handles but prevents the shell 1 from coming off of the plug at until the screw 14: is withdrawn.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cigar lighter, the combination with a tapered plug having a gas passage, a shell adapted to receive said plug, a cup carried by said shell, and a gas passage connecting said cup and shell, of a handle carried by the shell, a handle carried by the plug, opposing bosses on said handles, a compression spring between said handles, adapted to hold them normally separated, a threaded boss on said shell, an adjusting screw carried by said boss, and a stop on said plug adapted to contact with the end of said adjusting screw.

2. In a cigar lighter, the combination with a tapered plug havin a gas passage, a shell adapted to receive sa id plug, a cup carried by said shell, and a gas passage connecting said cup and shell, of a handle carried by the shell, a handle carried by the plug, oppos ing bosses on said handles, a compression spring between said handles, adapted to hold them normally separated, and means adapted to adjustably limit the amount of such separation.

3. In a cigar lighter, the combination with a tapered plug having a gas passage, a shell adapted to receive said plug, a cup carried by said shell, and a gas passage connecting said cup and shell, of a handle carried by the shell, a handle carried by the plug, opposing bosses on said handles, meansbetween said handles adapted to hold them normally separated, a threaded boss on said shell, an adjusting screw carried by said boss, and a stop on said plug adapted to contact with the end of said adjusting screw, said plug being formed with a pocket to loosely receive the end of said screw.

4. In a cigar lighter, the combination wit-h a tapered plug having a gas passage, a shell adapted to receive said plug, a cup carried by said shell, and a gas passage connecting said cup and shell, of a handle carried by the shell, a handle carried by the plug, a stop between said handles to limit their inward movement, means carried by said handles, adapted to hold them normally separated, and means adapted to limit the amount of such separation.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRED STOCKER.

itnesses CHRISTINE A. BRAIDEL,

NELLIE M. ANGUS. 

